Etats-Unis : la pauvreté explose 14,6 % de la population est concernée !

Mardi 17 novembre 2009 :

Aux Etats-Unis, le nombre de pauvres explose. 50 millions d’Américains souffrent d’insécurité alimentaire. En pourcentage, cela représente 14,6 % de la population.

Food insecurity - defined by the USDA as when "food intake … was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food" - afflicted 14.6 % of Americans in 2008. Ie, some 50 million people were too poor to guarantee being able to put food on the table.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/nov/17/food-insecurity-us-state-data